GSIS Launches ‘GW@Ps’ in San Francisco

15 March 2007 – Consul General Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez of the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) President and General Manager Winston Garcia officially launched on 6 March 2007 at the Philippine Center Building in San Francisco the GSIS Wireless Automated Processing System (GW@PS) to serve its pensioners and members in the area.

 The GW@PS kiosk which was installed at the Consulate works like a GSIS office-in-a-kiosk that accepts applications from pensioners for their own eCard Plus.

 “Pensioners who have migrated to the United States or elsewhere outside the Philippines no longer need to make a trip back home and make a personal appearance to a GSIS servicing office to ensure that they continue to receive their monthly pension benefits,” GSIS President Garcia said.  “Instead, once they have their eCard Plus, they only need to have their fingerprints scanned and revalidated through the GW@PS.”

 Consul General Sanchez welcomed the installation of the WA@PS kiosk at the Consulate.  “The GW@PS in San Francisco epitomizes the zeal of the Philippine government to be of service to Filipinos wherever they may be,” she remarked.

 A GSIS team has been in San Francisco since 26 February 2007 to conduct soft-enrolment to the new system to old-age pensioners in the area.  To date, over 500 old-age GSIS pensioners were enrolled in the system. END

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